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The Amoretti (San Pancrazio Parmense, 18th to 19th centuries) are a family of type-engravers, printers, mechanicians and crafted blacksmiths of the Duchy of Parma. They were friends and pupils of the printer Giambattista Bodoni, from whom they detached in 1791 in order to establish their own printing house and type foundry as competitors of their master. ==The cooperation with Giambattista Bodoni== At the time Bodoni was called to Parma (1768), several generations of the Amoretti family had been practicing the craft of blacksmiths and mechanics in their native hamlet of San Pancrazio. Their skill was recognized even by the Prime Minister of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, Guillaume du Tillot. In 1774 the brothers Pancrace and James received an order by Bodoni to build steel forms to found metal printing types, because the brass ones the printer had commissioned to a watchmaker were losing precision too quickly. The mandate that Minister Du Tillot stipulated with Bodoni also committed the latter to grow pupils in the art of printing. The printer noticed the ability of James as blacksmith and proposed him to start engraving the punches, that the master would later refine. Andrea Amoretti, firstborn of Pancrace, helped his uncle James engraving the punches and both worked in the type foundry of the Royal Printing House. He autonomously cut a big deal of Bodoni's punches, including the "Parma" size, the smallest font Bodoni ever proposed and used. The correspondence between Giambattista and his brother Joseph puts evidence on the friendship between Bodoni and the Amorettis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amoretti Brothers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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